Charlie Smith Reads: The Best of the Birch Lake Road

In response to repeated reader-requests, Charlie Smith - "the Bard of the North Shore" - reads 20 of his crowd-pleasing best poems from his first two books, plus five new beauties. A cross between Robert Service's tall tales, Grey Owl's attention to nature, Ian Tyson's cowboy poetry, and Fred Eaglesmith's acerbic wit, Charlie's poetry is as authentic as the land he farms northeast of Massey Ontario."Charlie Smith Reads" follows Charlie's two successful YSP collections of poetry: "The Beast that God has Kissed: Songs from the Birch Lake Road" (Dec. 2000), and "Through Three Long Miles of Night: More Songs from the Birch Lake Road" (May 2003), as well as his YSP collection of 17 stories "Tag Alder Tales" (May 2005). The resonant lyric/narrative voice so evident in the earlier volumes manifests itself richly in this audio CD of his best poems.